Feels like Summer !!
OK, I know it’s not for almost a month yet, but it feels like summertime is here.
For a few reasons. Once again, I’m without a job (seems to happen every other summer last 4 years). I have just about given up on ever being a Solaris Sysadmin again. Unix will always be my first love, and the BOFH my hero, but in the NYC metro area, there are just waaay more Unix admins then jobs last few years. Unless you of course are Dennis Ritchie and have 3 or 4 degrees and are an admin/senior DBA/network guru/C++ and Java programmer all in one. Then there are a few jobs out there.
The other reason is it’s been hot and humid and thunderstorming like crazy around here. Guess it could be worse, we could be having tornadoes, eh?
I guess the way the market is they can have a laundry list of very specific requirements. But hey, I think my resume is pretty impressive anyway. Wanna take a look? Wanna hire me? Here is a text version with the names erased to protect the innocent (more like guilty).
What have I been doing? Keeping busy so I don’t fall into a depression and then proceed to be in denial of the fact that I’m depressed.
This morning Grace got to sleep in. So I woke up, vacumed the pool, watered the garden, and took a few pix of my RC cars. Take a look at the thumbnail page I made of the pics. Notice how sparkling clear the pool is. Yes, I’m a Pool-Master, I can make the nastiest green or brown pool crystal clear in a few days.
Yes, I’m getting lazy, easier to make a page of thumbs then to add all the links to the images here in the body of the posting. This blog software is Greymatter of course, and you have to add links and such as html tags and I’m just a little too lazy this morning.
I also put in a vegetable garden this year, it’s been about 5 years since the last time I grew veggies. Have some tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, bell peppers, and bush beans planted. And of cource I grow Habanero’s, Jalapeno’s and other hot peppers in containers for cooking and to make my own hot sauce. Which of course is so hot nobody can eat it.
To top it all off (as if being unemployed isn’t bad enough) the transmission went in my Camry, so it’s just sitting at the top of the driveway. I’m driving around in an old Chevy Cavalier that my friend Lissa gave me and I had planned on giving it to Sam to drive. But for now we share it, kinda like a family vehicle.
OK, that’s it for now, I’ll take some pix of the yard and stuff and post them soon. I’m going up to New Hampshire to help my Dad pack for his move this weekend so I’ll take pics up there too. He had a heart attack two weeks ago so he can’t do any lifting or anything. Thankfully he is alright, but it was just bad timing as he’s retiring and moving down to North Carolina next month.
K, later for now….
-Steve
